Tim Kring is TOUCHing you.

Hmm. I was thinking of giving this a shot, just for Sutherland, and some unintentional hilarity, but then I remembered I have the first season of BOSS stacked up I haven't watched yet.

He had some incredible moments as an actor during the first few seasons of 24. But these days when I see his name attached to something, I don't want good acting from him, I just want it to be one of those roles where it's not 24 but he's still acting like he's Jack Bauer e.g. The Sentinel, or most hilariously, Mirrors.

 

Haven't watched this new one yet, have only read bits and pieces about the premise of the show. At any point does his character get to shout aggressively at autistic kids or intimidate them at gunpoint?

 

Why does every ad for this show make me think of that Nick Cage movie, "Knowing"? Seems like almost the same premise, but with different origins. It also reminds me of that old great show, "The Pretender", but the sad fact is that with this being a Tim Kring show, we all know it'll end up being shit. Unless Fox is actually on the ball and has someone one there to slap the shit out of Kring every time he actually starts to think he's smart. Or can write....

Didn't get very far into the first episode. I find it hilarious at how mad the wife gets when she sees social workers doing things social workers would never do in real life or behave in certain ways. (I intentionally rented Case 39 and trolled her hard, oh cool a Renee Zelwiger movie?) The whole bit of removing the autistic kid because of the schools negligence, in her words, is fucking bullshit. Kiefer provides for the kid, has demonstrated love and a mostly safe environment for him, as well as trying to meet his unique needs. And then some bitch comes along and says hey we're moving you out of your parents house, never mind the fact the school made no effort to keep tabs on the kid given his previous history of running off to go climb some god damned tower.

So, Alcatraz, is that turd too?

I love Kiefer and was so disappointed in this show.  *yawn*  It felt like an AT&T commercial.  I kept hoping that something bad would happen that would force Kiefer's character to become an ass-kicker.   And Mongy, the social worker thing was beyond absurd.  What universe does Kring live in?

A plot-convenient one?

Undecided. It's a standard procedural more or less. Giving it 2 more episodes.

Just watched this.  Eh...I sort of dug the premise, but Kring seems to be a master at fucking up good ideas.  The cell phone viral singer plot line was ludicrous...not that the fat guy thought she would become a hit, but that everyone who got a hold of the phone seemed to fixate on that particular video.

 

My eye rolling started as soon as Keifer left the guy's cell phone on the conveyor belt after JUST SPEAKING TO HIM ABOUT GETTING IT RETURNED.  I understand he was worried about his son, but it just stunk of stupidity for the sake of plot convenience, which Kring seems to love.

 

Yeah and the social worker was the most unbelievable part of the story.  The kid obviously wasn't being abused or neglected.  He was just sneaking off from school to climb a tower...how could his father control that???

 

Oh, and the middle eastern kid is willing to blow himself (and many others) up over an oven...wow.  He goes from being convinced he'll be a comedy star to having no hope for himself at all to the point of suicide in the span of what, 24 hours?

 

The next episode is set to air on the 22nd.  I MIGHT check it out just to see if by some miracle Kring can do something with this.  Sutherland and the basic premise is about the only thing keeping me interested

This show vastly overestimates the powers of math.

it made my missus cry.

 

completely unimpressed me.

Anytime Titus Welliver was on screen I was into it other that it was awful.

The NOW WE'RE IN JAPAN scene was ludicrous but the killer for me was:

"An oven!? I KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN GET YOU AN OVEN!" ... And they all lived happily ever after.